All jokes about muffins just being breakfast cupcakes aside, there are some critical differences that actually make them lightyears apart. On an anecdotal level, cupcakes and muffins traditionally ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Both domed, handheld baked goods are created using the same pan, but here’s what actually distinguishes one from the other.

Why do we think having a muffin for breakfast is okay but not a cupcake? Is it the sugary icing? Or how we like to pretend that our double chocolate chip muffin is “healthy”? Discover what makes them ...

December 5, 2012 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google You can't make assumptions about food anymore. What seems healthy may not be. Such is the case with cupcakes ...

“Once you lick the frosting off a cupcake, you have a muffin … and muffins are healthy. You’re welcome.” This bit of rationalized wisdom was posted in a deli we recently visited in North Carolina. It ...

Never have these miniature sweets enjoyed such celebrity, such popularity, such fandom. Bakeries dedicated solely to these frosted hand-held treats are popping up around town. There is Cupcakes on ...

If you ask cookbook author Jessie Sheehan, the ganache-oozing chocolate muffin that went viral at the Olympic Village last summer was no breakfast food. “You guys are all eating chocolate cake,” said ...

Why do I have such a problem with muffins? When I want to provoke my wife, I tell her that a good muffin is actually just a cupcake! My daughters think I’m dated. And they’re probably right ... But in ...